Pavel Büchler

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Born 1952 in Prague

Lives and works in Manchester, United Kingdom

1997- Research Professor in Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

1992-1996 Head of the School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

1983-1987 Co-director, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery

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Education

1973-1976 Institute of Applied Arts, Prague

1970-1972 School of Graphic Arts, Prague

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2015 Pavel Büchler – Now and Again, annex14, Zürich

(Honest) Work, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2014 Back to Work, Tanya Leighton, Berlin

Pavel Büchler, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

2013 No Returns, Galleria Vistamare, Pescar

Idle Thoughts, The University of Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery,

Manchester

No Time To Paint (with Paul Czerlitszki), Annex 14, Zurich

Acid & Nicotine, Max Wigram Gallery, London

2012 Work for Words, annex14, Bern, Switzerland

NO NEW WORK, Max Wigram Gallery, London

2011 Pavel Büchler, Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

Working Title (with Evangelia Spiliopoulou), Peep-Hole, Milan

2010 Studio Schwitters, Max Wigram Gallery, London

As if it had never ceased to exist, Kunstparterre, Munich

Labour in Vain, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

2009 Unfinished Sentences, annex14, Bern, Switzerland

Small Sculptures, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow

L’imitation, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

Eclipse, Max Wigram Gallery, London

2008 Hot Air, Sleeper, Edinburgh

Sold Out, Max Wigram Gallery, London

2007 So what?, Objectif_Exhibitions, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen,

Antwerp

Pathologische Farben, annex14, Bern, Switzerland

Pavel Büchler, Avi Mugrabi, Frances Stark, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

2006 Old, Rare and Unusual Roses, Goethe Institute, Dublin

Absentmindedwindowgazing, Kunsthalle Bern; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Plug-In # 1, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2004 Pavel Büchler, Program, London

2002 Conversation Pieces, Taidekeskus Mältinränta and Galleria Saskia,

Tampere (catalogue)

2000 Collected Poems, Centre for Artists Books, Dundee Contemporary Arts,

Dundee, UK

1999 Modern Paintings +, galleri s.e., Bergen, Norway

LIVE, The Gramophon, Hanover

1998 Blind Spot, Artspace, Sydney

1997 Pavel Büchler, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh

1989 Untitled Portraits, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge

1988 Untitled Portraits, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow

1987 AM/OR, Camerawork, London

1986 The Wall, Bookworks, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 THE PROBLEM OF GOD, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

(forthcoming)

In An Absolut World True Taste Comes Naturally, Camberwell Space,

London

Modern History vol.1, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

2014 Threshold, curated by Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen,

Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen, Belgium

The Allegory of a Cave Painting (curated by Mihnea Mircan), Extra City

/ The Braem Pavilion, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp

On the Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell Gallery, London

A Thousand Doors, curated by Iwona Blazwick, NEON / Whitechapel Gallery

at The Gennadius Library, Athens

Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art

Museum, East Lansing, MI, USA

Speaking in Tongues: Sonia Boyce, Pavel Büchler, Susan Hiller (curated

by Francis McKee), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

2013 Drawing Time, Reading Time (curated by Claire Gilman), The Drawing

Center, New York

Marking Language (curated by Kate Macfarlane and Mary Doyle), Drawing

Room, London

Innsbruck International (curated by Tereza Kotyk), Kreusgang

Servitenkloster, Innsbruck, Austria

Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Documents: Selections from the Ella

Fontanals-Cisneros Collection (curated by Donald Johnson-Montenegro),

The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York

2012 Cosmo’s Levels (curated by Jamie Lobb), The Sunday Painter, London

Red, White and Blue: Pop, Punk, Politics, Place (curated by Daniel

Sturgis), Chelsea Space, London

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art (curated by Andrea Anderson),

MCA Denver

Drop Me a Line (curated by Clive Phillpot), Laure Genillard Gallery,

London

Dot.Systems (curated by Reinhard Spieler and Barbara Scheuermann),

Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen

In the Light of the Overhead (curated by Alastair Levy), Post Box

Gallery, London

Homo Economicus (curated by David Bussel), Cabinet, London

Level, Talbot Gallery, Edinburgh

2011 Les Marques Aveugles (curated by Katya García-Antón and Emilie Bujès),

centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva

A Text is a Thing (curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and Alessandro

Rabottini), Galleria Vistamare, Pescara

The Intellectual Work: Enzo Mari, with Pavel Büchler, Jason Dodge, Tim

Rollins and K.O.S (curated by Barbara Casavecchia), Tanya Leighton

Gallery, Berlin

Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices, Selections from the Ella

Fontanals-Cisneros Collection (curated by Philippe Pirotte and Jesus

Fuenmayor), Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami

The Confidence-Man (curated by Gianni Jetzer), Tanya Leighton Gallery,

Berlin

Made Festival (curated by Tina Eriksson Fredriksson), NorrlandOperan,

Umeå

End Note (curated by Robert O. Fitzpatrick), Tanya Leighton Gallery,

Berlin

Art Boom Festival (curated by Philippe Pirotte and Karolina Kolenda),

Krakow

Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions (curated by Christa Maria Lerm-

Hayes), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

Inéditos 2011: Deputés del Silencio (curated by Pedro Portellano), La

Casa Encendida, Madrid

Dark Matters (curated by Helen Stalker), The Whitworth Art Gallery,

Manchester

From Trash to Treasure (curated by Anette Hüsch), Kunsthalle zu Kiel,

Kiel

Words such as Painting and Sculpture, Annex 14, Bern, Switzerland

We Are Grammar (curated by Dave Beech and Paul O’Neill), Pratt

Manhattan Gallery, New York

Sentences (curated by Tony Trehy), Bury Art Gallery, Bury

Image Projected Until it Vanishes (curated by Mihnea Mircan), Museion,

Bolzano

My Communism: Poster Exhibition (curated by Yang Zhenzhong, Philippe

Pirotte et al), TOP Contemporary art Centre, Shanghai

2010 As So Ci Ations (curated by Tanya Leighton), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

A Vision of Central Europe; The Reality of the Lowest Rank (curated by

Luc Tuymans), Aurentshuis, Bruges City Festival, Bruges

Under Destruction (curated by Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp), Tinguely

Museum, Basel; Swiss Institute, New York

Landscapes (confini in disordine) (curated by Lorenzo Bruni), Magazzino

d’Arte Moderna, Rome

An Unpardonable Sin (curated by Philippe Pirotte), Castillo/Corrales,

Paris

No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London

The History of Art (curated by Mihnea Mircan), David Roberts

Foundation, London

Modern Dialect (curated by Wim van den Abbeele), Museum van Hedendaagse

Kunst, Antwerpen

FischGrätenMelkStand (curated by John Bock), Temporäre Kunsthalle,

Berlin

Distance and Sensibility (curated by David Thorp), Calvert 22, London

The Art of Design (curated by Tereza Kotyk), Freiraum /

Museumsquartier, Vienna

The Way We Do Art Now (selected by Pavel Büchler), Tanya Leighton

Gallery, Berlin

2009 Unresolved (curated by Pavel Büchler), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

The Northern Art Prize 2009, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds

Inéditos 2009: La vuelta de la esquina (curated by Direlia Lazo), Casa

Encendida, Madrid

The Human Stain (curated by Ellen Blumenstein), Centro Galego de Arte

Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Afterwards (curated by Sharon Kivland), Mead Gallery, Coventry, United

Kingdom

2008 Climate Change, Frieze Projects 2008 (curated by Neville Wakefield),

Frieze Art Fair, London

What Comes Naturally, Contemporary Flowers (curated by Glynnis

McDaris), Fake Estate, New York

Re-Reading the Future, International Triennale of Contemporary Art 2008

(curated by Henry Meyric Hughes), National Gallery, Prague

Book-ish (curated by Matt Packer), Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork,

Ireland

Involved (curated by Philippe Pirotte), ShangART Gallery, Shanghai

Always Begins by Degrees (curated by Katrina Brown), The Common Guild,

Glasgow

2007 Invisible, Max Wigram Gallery, London

Doubleuse (curated by Katie McKee), The Nunnery, London

2006 The Signing (curated by Amikam Toren), Keith Talent Gallery, London

The Grand Promenade (curated by Anna Kafetsi), National Museum of

Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue)

Writing in Strobe (curated by Andrew Hunt), Dicksmith Gallery, London

Colour + Perception (curated by Bryony Bond), Sherbourne House, Dorset

2005 9th Istanbul Biennial (curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun),

Istanbul

Alchemy (curated by Bryony Bond), The Manchester Museum, Manchester

Off-Key (curated by Philippe Pirotte), Kunsthalle Bern

Social Club, The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

Whatever Happened to Social Democracy? (co-curated with Charles Esche),

Rooseum, Malmo

2004 Strangers to Ourselves 04 (curated by Judith Stewart), 201 St. John

Street, London

Friday 13th, galleri s.e, Bergen

Tonight (curated by Paul O'Neill), Studio Voltaire, London

2003 artranspennine 03 (curated by Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson), Manchester

Seesaw (curated by Brass Art), The Gramophon, Hanover

To the Letter (curated by Frantiska and Tim Gillman-Sevcik), CCNY, New

York

Strangers to Ourselves (curated by Judith Stewart, Metropole Galleries,

Folkestone

Incommunicado (curated by Margot Heller), Sainsbury Centre, Norwich;

Edinburgh Art Centre; Cornerhouse, Manchester

2002 Private Views (curated by Paul O'Neill), London Print Studio Gallery,

London

2001 Gorilla Tactics, Jump Ship Rat, Liverpool

Record Collection, The International 3, Manchester; Espace d'art

Contemporain, Geneva

Manchester Pavilion, (with Nick Crowe, Graham Parker and Martin

Vincent), Venice, Italy (continued until 2007)

2000 Snowballing (curated by Elisabeth Price), Arthur R Rose Gallery,

London; The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Anxious Words (curated by Sharon Kivland), Waterstone's Piccadilly,

London

Moon (curated by Kurt Johannessen), Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen

ManMoMA: A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3,

Manchester

TransAct (curated by Cathrin Pichler and Hans-Ulrich Obrist), Museum in

Progress, Vienna

1999 Stunt (with Laila Kongevold, curated by Eli Okkenhaug), Hordaland

Kunstersenter, Bergen

Liverpool Billboard Project (curated by Alan Dunn), Liverpool

Limit Less (curated by Mathew Higgs), Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art (curated by Anthony Bond),

Liverpool

1998 A to Z (curated by Mathew Higgs), The Approach, London

Receptor (curated by Julien Robson), Galerie Steinek, Vienna

Whispers, Lies and Text (curated by Mary Knights), CAST Gallery, Hobart

(and touring) Disquieting Strangeness (curated by Sharon Kivland),

Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London

1997 Networking: Art by Post, Fax and Phone (curated by Andrew Patrizio),

Spacex Gallery, Exeter (and touring)

Between Tradition and Experiment (curated by Jiri Valoch), Museum of

Art, Olomouc

Library Re-Locations (curated by Ian Hunt), Book Works, Chetham

Library, Manchester

Tower of Babble (curated by Malcolm Dickson), Street Level Gallery,

Glasgow; Norwich Gallery, Norwich

1996 Art When Time Stood Still: The Czech Art Scene 1969-1985 (curated by

Olaf Hanel), Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague

New Zlín Salon I (curated by Ludvík Ševeček), State Gallery, Zlín 1995 Freedom (curated by Angela Kingston), Kelvingrove Museum and Art

Gallery, Glasgow (and touring)

1994 East (selected by Rudi Fuchs and Jan Dibbets), Norwich Gallery, Norwich

1992 Work & Turn (curated by David Blamey), National Gallery of Iceland,

Reykjavik

Influential Europeans (curated by Mary Schoeser), Crafts Council,

London (and touring)

Czechoslovak Photography in Exile (curated by Anna Fárová), Mánes,

Prague

1991 Excavating the Present (curated by Charles Esche), Kettle’s Yard,

Cambridge; Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough

Action Art (curated by Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro), Mánes, Prague; Povážská gallerie, Žilina

The Bellgrove Station Billboard Project (curated by Alan Dunn

1990 Homage to the Square II, Flaxman Gallery, London

1989 Metamorphoses of the Image: Recent Photographic Strategies in Britain

(curated by John Stathatos), Helenic Centre for Photography, Athens

Searchlight (curated by Angela Kingston), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1988 Homage to the Square, Flaxman Gallery, London

Death (selected by Dawn Ades, John Goto and Stuart Morgan), Kettle's

Yard, Cambridge

The Wall (curated by Paul Wombell), Impressions Gallery, York

1987 Monumental Works (curated by Sharon Kivland and Ian Walker), St Georges

of Bloomsbury, London

1985 Food as Politics (curated by Sharon Kivland), Camerawork, London

1984 Sky Show (curated by Pavel Büchler), Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge

1982 Artists in Focus, Morley Gallery, London

Black and White and Red All Over (curated by Diana Augaitis), Franklin

Furnace, New York

Selected Bibliography

2014 Moira Jeffrey, “Boyce, Büchler and Hiller,” The Scotsman, March 2104

Ariane Grabher, “Was passiert, wenn nichts passieren soll,”

Vorarlberger Nachrichten, February 2014

2013 Michael Sanchez, “2011,” Artforum, Summer 2013

Kate Macfarlane, “Drawing Time, Reading Time / Marking Language,” The

Drawing Center, New York / Drawing Room, London

2012 Eva-Maria Engelen, “Verführung Freiheit: Kunst in Europa seit 1945,”

Standstein Verlag, Dresden

Mark Doyle, “Pavel Büchler”, interview, Corridor8, Issue 3, Part 4,

September 2012

Paul Carey-Kent, “New Places in June,” Paul’s Art World, May 2012

“Pavel Büchler: ‘No New Work’,” Who’s Jack, May 2012

Reinhard Spieler, “Punkt.Systeme: Von Pointillismus zum Pixel,”

Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

Andrew Bracey, “Conceptual Painting,” Garageland, No. 13, March 2012

2011 Pavel Büchler: Making Nothing Happen, film by Simon Morris, information

as material, York

Dörte Zbikowski, “From Trash to Treasure,” Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld

Pedro Portellano, “Inéditos 2011: After silence,” La Casa Encendida,

Madrid

Joan Key, “Pavel Büchler: Painting as Praxis,” Painting (Documents of

Contemporary Art), ed. Terry R. Myers, Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press,

Cambridge

Lee Triming, “Pavel Büchler,” Art in America, January 2011

2010 Kate Mayne, “When a Rose Is Not a Rose,” Luc Tuymans: The reality of

the Lowest Rank, ed. Tommy Simoens, Lannoo Publishers, Tielt

J J Charlesworth, “Pavel Büchler: Studio Schwitters,” Artreview, Issue

46, December 2010

Viviene Blanchard, “Primal Sounds of the Machine,” a-n, October 2010

Tony Ozuna, “A provocative homecoming,” Prague Post, 8 July 2010

Kristy Bell, “The Way We Do Art Now,” Frieze, No. 132, June/August 2010

Jaroslav Anděl, J J Charlesworth, Charles Esche, Richard Gott, Douglas Gordon, Christa-Maria, Lerm Hayes, Mihnea Mircan, Hester Reeve, Patrick

van Rossem, “Pavel Büchler: Labour in Vain,” DOX Centre For

Contemporary Art, Prague

Barbara Casavecchia, “Under Destruction,” Distanz Verlag, Berlin

Martin Wainwright, “Northern star: Pavel Büchler wins 2010 Northern Art

Prize,” The Guardian, 22 January 2010

Neil Cooper, “Unresolved,” MAP, No. 21, Spring 2010

2009 John Reardon, “Pavel Büchler,” Ch-ch-ch-changes: Artists talk about

teaching, eds. David Molin and John Reardon, Ridinghouse, London

David Thorp, “Distance and Sensibility,” Calvert22, London

Sophie Raikes, “Northern Art Prize 2009,” Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds

Neville Wakefield, “Pavel Büchler,” Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9,

Frieze, London

Direlia Lazo, “Inéditos 2009: Just Around the Corner,” La Casa

Encendida, Madrid

Ellen Blumenstein, “The Human Stain,” CGAC, Santiago de Compostela

David Bellingham, “Pavel Büchler: Small Sculptures,” Street Level

Photoworks, Glasgow

Susan Mansfield, “Visual art review: Bruce Nauman, Annette Ruenzler,

Pavel Büchler, The Scotsman,” 5 May 2009

Henry Meyrick Hughes , “ITCA 2008, International Triennale of

Contemporary Art,” interview, National Gallery, Prague

Eric Aichinger, “Der Strenge Spieler,” artnet, February 2009

Brigitte Werneburg, “Unterwegs mit dem Starship Coach,” taz.de,

Frebuary 2009

2008 Gareth Harris, “Pavel Büchler,” Artforum, January 2008

2007 Pavel Büchler: Absentmindedwindowgazing, monograph with texts by

Charles Esche, Chus Martinez, Philippe Pirotte, François Bucher, Nick

Crowe, Andrew Hunt, Joan Key, Paul O'Neill, Jiří Drašnar, Weenman

Publishers, Rotterdam

Andrew Hunt, “Pavel Büchler,” Art Monthly, No. 303, February 2007

Aidan Dunne, “No Fooling the Sceptical Artist,” The Irish Times, 10

January 2007

Rachel Withers, “Pavel Büchler,” Artforum, January 2007

2005 Hester Reeve, “Red Flag on the Cathedral,” interview, The

Internationaler, Issue 1, September 2005

Charles Esche, “Istanbul: 9th International Istanbul Biennial,”

Istanbul

Paul O'Neill, “Off-Key,” Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

2004 Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz, “Visualizing Anthropology,” Intellect,

Bristol

Nick Crowe, “Pavel Büchler,” Art Monthly, No. 278, September 2004

Andrew Hunt, “Pavel Büchler,” Frieze, No. 85, October 2004

Nicky Bird, “Strangers to Ourselves,” Art Monthly, No. 273, February

2004

2003 Pavel Büchler: Conversation Pieces, monograph with texts by David

Bellingham, Will Bradley, Tim Brennan, Jim Harold, Sharon Kivland,

Simon Morris and Howard Britton, Roger Palmer, Charles Sandison, John

Stezaker, i3 Publications, Manchester

David Bellingham, “The Manchester Pavilion,” interview, Matters, Issue

17, Summer 2003

Jane Griffiths, “Pavel Büchler,” Flux, No. 36, 2003

1999 Desa Philippi, “Matter of Words: Translations in Eastern European

Conceptualism,” Rewriting Conceptual Art, eds. Michael Newman and Jon

Bird, Reaktion Books, London

Ian Hunt, “Photographs not Photography,” Art Monthly, No. 228,

July/August 1999

Anthony Bond, “Trace: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art,”,

Liverpool

1998 Ian Hunt, “Red Flag,” Afterall, No. 0, 1998

Desa Philippi, “Sunday February 30,” Afterall, No. 0, 1998

Nikos Papastergiadis, “Pavel Büchler: Blind Spot,” Art Space, Sydney

1997 Mark Durden, “Pavel Büchler: Interview,” Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh,

1997

Ian Hunt, “Library Re-locations,” Book Works, London, 1997

Clive Phillpot, “Kafka Comes to Glasgow,” Modern Painters, Autumn 1997

John Beagles, “Pavel Büchler,” The List, Edinburgh, No. 320, November

1997

1996 Nicholas Allen, “Pavel Büchler,” Source, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1996

1995 Ian Hunt, “Subsequent Purchasers,” Portfolio Magazine, No. 22, December

1995

1993 Anne Barclay Morgan, “Interview: Pavel Büchler,” Art Papers, Vol. 17,

No. 1, January/February 1993

1989 John Stathatos, “Disseminating a Practice: Five Years of the Cambridge

Darkroom,” Creative Camera, No. 10, October 1989

Ivan Gaskell, “Photography and Art - What Next?,” Apollo, Vol. 130, No.

331, September 1989

1988 Chris Titterington, “Pavel Büchler: Historical Handshakes, Toned with

Gold,” Variant, Glasgow, No. 5, Summer/Autumn 1988

Michael Newman, “Pavel Büchler: Untitled Portraits,” Third Eye Centre,

Glasgow

1987 Craigie Horsfield, “Senses of Identity,” Creative Camera, No.11, 1987

John Goto, “Pavel Büchler: Principles,” Creative Camera, No. 8&9,

August/September 1987

Chrissie Iles, “From Berlin to Borough Market,” Performance Magazine,

No. 46, 1987

Selected Writing

2014 “Konceptuální paradox,” Kniha jako forma umění, (“Conceptual Paradox”,

The Book as an Art Form), ed. Julie Kačerovská, FAVU, Brno

2012 “But is it Life?,” Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention, ed. Ben

Parry, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

2011 Notes from the Bottom of a Bag, Peep-Hole Sheet, No. 7, Mousse

Publishing, Milan

2010 "Dear Will", F. R. David, "With Love", Issue 7, summer 2010

2009 "Where Nothing Makes Sense", Voids, ed. In John Armleder et al, JRP

Ringier, Zurich, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris

2005 "Blank Page", Transmission: Speaking & Listening, Vol. 4, ed. Sharon

Kivland, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Emma Cocker, Site Gallery, Sheffield

"We Are Not There Yet" (with Charles Esche), Provisorium, No. 1,

January 2005

2004 "Word for Word" (with Nick Thurston), Performance Research: On the

Page, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2004

"Making Nothing Happen: Notes for a Seminar", Visualizing Anthropology,

ed. Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz, Intellect, Bristol

"Whatever Happened to Social Democracy?" (with Charles Esche),

Framework: The Finish Art Review. No. 1, April 2004

2003 "Some Notes on Art as Film As Art", Saving the Image: Art after Film,

ed. Tanya Leighton and Pavel Büchler, CCA, Glasgow

"The Blind Train-spotter: A Delirium of Doubt", Where Is the

Photograph?, ed. David Green, Photoworks/Photoforum, Brighton

2002 "Somebody's Got to Do It", Art: What Is It Good For?, ed. Dolan

Cummings, Institute of Ideas, Hodder & Stoughton, London

2001 "New Academic Art", Research and the Artist: Considering the Role of

the Art School, ed. Antonia Payne, University of Oxford, Oxford

2000 "Bureauphilia: A Lost Case", 292: Essays in Visual Culture, issue 1,

February 2000

"Other People's Culture", Curious: Artists' Research within Expert

Culture, ed. Susan Brind, Visual Arts Projects, Glasgow

1999 Ghost Stories: Stray Thoughts on Photography and Film, Proboscis,

London

1998 "Studio Irrational", Variant, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1998

"Stalin's Shoes (Smashed to Pieces)", DECADEnt, ed. David Harding and

Pavel Büchler, Foulis Press, Glasgow

1997 "Seeing, Believing and the Matter of Taste", (Re)visions of Sex, ed.

Alice Angus, Fotofeis, Edinburgh

“An Image of the Crowd”, Coil, No. 4, February 1997

1996 “Books as Books”, Bookworks: A Partial History and Sourcebook, ed. Jane

Rolo and Ian Hunt, Book Works, London

Random Access 2: Ambient Fears, (co-ed. with Nikos Papastergiadis),

Rivers Oram Press, London

1995 Random Access: On Crisis and Its Metaphors, (co-ed. with Nikos

Papastergiadis), Rivers Oram Press, London

1994 “No More 80s!”, Drawing Fire, The Journal of the NAFAE, Vol. 1, No. 1,

December 1994

Words in their Natural Setting, Tramline No. 1, Tramway, Glasgow

1993 “A Double-page Spread”, Creative Camera, No. 321, April/May 1993

1989 “Angled Mirrors”, Creative Camera, No. 8&9, August/September 1989

1986 Turning Over the Pages: Some Books in Contemporary Art, Kettle’s Yard,

Cambridge

Lectures, Conferences, Symposia

2015 In An Absolut World True Taste Comes Naturally, Camberwell College of

Arts, London

Awards

2012 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists

2010 The Northern Art Prize

Public Collections

Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges, Belgium

Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Bury, United Kingdom

Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

NorrlandsOperan, Umeå, Sweden

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Neues Museum Westerburg, Bremen, Germany

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

National Museum of Photography, Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland

Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

Albertina, Vienna, Austria

The Arts Council of England, London, United Kingdom

Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Franklin Furnace Archive, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Museum of Applied Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague, Czech Republic